Re: dead process seen as running

[Whit Blauvelt]

As a workaround, you could code an expect sequence to make sure it's really
the process you want (if it's a process that offers a tcp connection) - or
if it's a service monit already has a test for, just use that test.

Whit

On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 06:15:45PM +0000, . zist wrote:

> When monit monitors a process, it relies on the pid number of the process
> (found in a pid file) to check if it's alive. If the monitored process
> dies and another (non related) process reuses the pid before monit
> rechecks all process, monit wil think that the monitored process is still
> running while is it not. Is there a way to prevent this problem (problem
> which occurs in real life for me) ? Is there a workaround ? what would be
> the best way to code this if necessary ?